Local government authorities in the face of the supremacy of the Constitution – how the local authority perceives the effects of a refusal to publish judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal

• Authors: Anna Chmielarz-Grochal , Jarosław Sułkowski

Title variants

PL

Organy samorządu terytorialnego wobec nadrzędności konstytucji – jak władza lokalna postrzega skutki odmowy publikacji wyroków Trybunału Konstytucyjnego

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

In this paper, we present how the local authority perceives the effects of a refusal to publish judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal. We claim the resolutions of the local government bodies created none new legal situation (they did not create any obligation) because this result directly from Article 190 Section 1 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. The obligation to apply the law resulting from the primacy of the Constitution in accordance with the basic law, connected with implementing the principle of direct application of constitutional provisions, also means the obligation of the authorities to comply with the judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal as the guardian of that supremacy. In our opinion, the resolutions of the local government bodies were not of the nature of acts of power and therefore the considerations of administrative courts that questioned the legality of these acts due to the lack of legal grounds to take them were irrelevant. Therefore, there were no arguments to exclude these resolutions from the legal system based on the arguments presented by these courts.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Krakowski Instytut Prawa Karnego Fundacja
• Journal: Constitutional Review
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2018-11-28

online

2018-11-28

Contributors

author

Anna Chmielarz-Grochal

author

Jarosław Sułkowski